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The Hong Kong Arts Festival 2008, like many other international arts festivals worldwide, is not just a showcase of works by internationally acclaimed companies from all corners of the globe. It commissions and presents new works by well-established local artists as well, adding width and depth to a delicious feast of performing arts and allowing for both inter-cultural and intra-cultural discourse. ....
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Awash in the tide, Pina Bausch's transcendental "Vollmond" is fluid in spirit as well as movement.The cultural scene in Hong Kong has recently been vibrant, with art lovers getting the chance to celebrate, ever since Valentine's Day, the year's largest gathering of local and international performance artists. And of all 82 programmes offered in the 36th Hong Kong Arts Festival, one of bigge....
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Theatre Zingaro shows why the four-legged--well, six-legged, actually--Olympic events are coming to the SAR this summer.In the round, 1,300-seat performance tent on the lawn by Hong Kong's Hung Hom ferry pier, Theatre Zingaro (Italian for "gypsy") is thrilling viewers with pace, precision, passion and creativity in a spectacular horse show entitled "Battuta". With freedom the them....
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Once in a while, amidst many programmes of dance, theatre and music of an international festival, the organiser adds a special show. As part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2008, Theatre Zingaro's "Battuta" is such a case. The appearance by this French troupe and its spectacular horse show marks their second in Asia, after Japan. In the 1980s in France, Zingaro was founded by a keen equestri....
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The shining star of the city's cultural calendar is the month-long Arts Festival, featuring more than 80 performances from around the world.In the next five weeks, Hong Kong Arts Festival 2008 is one more reason why you should revisit "Asia's World City" in this Year of the Rat. With the schedule spanning 33 days starting on Valentine's Day, featuring 82 paid performances from the classical....
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